× Take our 30-second survey
The U.S. National Science Foundation and iDigBio are required to collect information on use of digitized collections-based specimen data. Please help us meet this requirement every time you use this search portal. Sustainability of the national digitization effort depends on evidence of data use! Maybe later.

Specimen Record

ContinentEurope
CountryUnited Kingdom
State/ProvinceEngland
County/ParishSomerset
LocalityNear Lilstock, Foreshore
Institution CodeRom
Collection CodeVertebrate Palaeontology
Catalog Number26027
Collected ByCostin;david;;
Date Collected1984-10-10

From Recordset

The vertebrate fossil collection at the Royal Ontario museum consists of over 72,000 catalogued and databased fossil specimens of all vertebrate classes. Inventory and databasing of the fossil fishes is not yet complete however, so this number will grow in the near future. The collection is just over a century old, having been started with a donation from the University of Toronto when the museum was created in 1914. Particular strengths of the collection include Cretaceous dinosaurs from Alberta, Jurassic ichthyosaurs, Tertiary mammals from Saskatchewan, Quaternary mammals from Peru, Ecuador, Florida and Alberta, as well as Quaternary birds from Peru.

Contacts

Name Bradley MIllen
RoleDatabase Technician
Emailbradm@rom.on.ca
Name Kevin Seymour
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailkevins@rom.on.ca
Name David Evans
RoleCurator
Emaildavide@rom.on.ca
Name Brian Iwama
RoleTechnician
Emailbriani@rom.on.ca
Name Ian Morrison
RoleTechnician
Emailianmo@rom.on.ca
Name Kevin Seymour
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailkevins@rom.on.ca
  • Data
  • Flags
  • Raw
specimen list